Traitement innovant des fumiers et des biodéchets en engrais écologiques – EcoFertiS

Ensuring sustainable Agricultural production should start with soil management and improvement. The goal of the Eco-Ferti proposal is to adopt integrated strategies for agricultural waste management to improve soil workability, proper drainage, water-holding capacity, and adequate nutrient availability. Such an improvement in the quality of the soil will be for the installation of a variety of crops requiring agricultural intervention for the production of green foods for the herding livestock. Benefits of soil organic matter include improvement of soil structure and fertility that promote a favorable rooting environment for plants through maintaining a carbon-nitrogen ratio. The advantages of the realization of such a project are the introduction of organic matter (Bio-compost, Biofertilizers, Ready Humus, and derivatives), and minerals (Nitrogen compounds, Mineral incinerates) to the soil of farms dedicated to the installation of intensive cultures. These amendments resulting from a system of recycling agricultural waste and manure/droppings from animal breeding areas will ensure an improvement in the structure of the soil, infiltration, drainage, water retention capacity and nutrients, and soil fertility. In the long term, these amendments will promote a favorable rooting environment for the plants chosen for the installation of agricultural land. The organic matter used will also serve as an energy source for the production of biogas useful for a self-supply of energy to the agricultural system setup. Through the Eco-Fertis project, a process by which biowastes/manure recycling and valorization will be developed; several work packages will be conducted in partnership with several Mediterranean institutions involving each a work program of processes setting and control. The work packages will be followed chronologically starting with the recovery of agricultural and biowastes, pretreatment, and organic analysis, then a Pre-processing and Sustainable recovery of derived products is obtained through adopting several operating strategies of raw matter derivatization. Besides, the agronomic conditions of the forge spices, agricultural practices, and crops will be monitored in relation to the agronomic and bioclimatic parameters, the irrigation process of the crops installed, and determined in relation to the characteristics of the soils of the new land devoted for crops loading. Then the industrial monitoring and local Biogas production conditions will be defined and assured for energy recycling. Subsequently, the analysis and formulation of market products, marketing study, and commercialization steps will be defined in relation to the range of the obtained products.
For each step, the obtained products need to be assessed first in the laboratory using state-of-the-art equipment and then in the field on the soil receptivity, therefore the data of outcomes will be continuously analyzed and updated through periodic reports. The expected scores are related mainly to farming soil improvement, healthier agricultural production, and agricultural evolution. Furthermore, a very important positive impacts could be achieved, concerning environment preservation jointly with an efficient economic activity.